Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
Amen. Jeremiah prays for the people, though constrained to prophesy against them (1 Kings 1:36). The event was the appointed test between contradictory predictions (Deuteronomy 18:21-22). 'Would that what you say were true.' I prefer the safety of my country even to my own estimation. The prophets had no pleasure in announcing God's judgments, but did so as a matter of stern duty, not thereby divesting themselves of their natural feelings of sorrow for their country's woe. (Compare Moses' word, Exodus 32:32, If thou wilt not forgive their sin, "blot me out of thy book," - and Paul's prayer, Romans 9:3, "I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh," - as instances of how God's servants, intent only on the glory of God and the salvation of the country, forgat self, and uttered wishes in a state of feeling transported out of themselves.) So Jeremiah wished not to diminish ought from the word of God, though as a Jew he uttered the wish for his people (Calvin).